1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
Summary of “The Glorious Postwar World” This brief political-economic essay, chapter 104 of Murray N. Rothbard’s Making Economic Sense, is a polemic on the domestic consequences of war, written in the immediate aftermath...
This file is a single-author polemical political essay from December 1991. Its immediate scope is the Clarence Thomas–Anita Hill confirmation controversy, but Rothbard uses the episode to attack organized feminism, sexua...
Murray N. Rothbard, “The Infant Mortality ‘Crisis’” Murray N. Rothbard’s “The Infant Mortality ‘Crisis’” is a short polemical chapter from Making Economic Sense, set within the welfare-policy section “The Socialism of We...
Summary: Murray N. Rothbard, “The Kennedy ‘Rape’ Case” (1991) This file is a short single-author polemical commentary. Written in June 1991, it treats the William Kennedy Smith Palm Beach rape allegation as a case study...
Summary: Murray N. Rothbard, “The Mysterious Fed” (1991) This file is a short polemical essay in political economy. Rothbard’s scope is narrow but pointed: the reappointment of Alan Greenspan becomes an occasion to expos...
Murray N. Rothbard, “The Right to Kill, With Dignity?” (1991) This is a short polemical political essay. Rothbard intervenes in early-1990s debates over euthanasia, living wills, assisted suicide, medical authority, and...
Summary: Murray N. Rothbard, “The Salomon Brothers Scandal” (1991) This file is a single short polemical essay in political economy...
This file is a single-author, polemical economics chapter: chapter 37 of Murray N. Rothbard’s Making Economic Sense. Its scope is narrow but programmatic...
Summary: Murray N. Rothbard, “Welcome, Slovenia!” (1991) This file is a short political essay. Written in September 1991, it is Rothbard’s polemical response to Slovenia’s break from Yugoslavia...
Why the War? The Kuwait Connection — Summary This file is a short May 1991 political polemic and investigative essay. Rothbard’s scope is deliberately narrow: he asks why the United States fought the Gulf War and answers...
This file is a short 1991 polemical legal-political essay. Rothbard uses the Wichita Operation Rescue controversy not chiefly to argue abortion policy, but to redirect attention to jurisdiction, federal force, and the “d...
Murray N. Rothbard, “Free Trade” in Perspective Murray N. Rothbard’s “Free Trade” in Perspective is a short polemical economic essay written in the setting of the 1992 presidential campaign...